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Old 11-16-2007, 04:32 PM   #1 (permalink)
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UK fat patients claim discrimination (AP via Yahoo! News)

For two years, Frances Kinley-Manton says she lived with arthritis pain in her hips, a condition that kept her in a wheelchair. She wanted hip replacement surgery. But doctors at Britain's National Health Service said she was too fat for the operation. "They wouldn't even put me on a waiting list," Kinley-Manton recalled.

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